Turnitin will only show your content plagiarized if you have used Turnitin to check plagiarism in your content and it has stored content in the repository or if you are copying content from any "online" resources.

Turnitin is accessed through the VLE, however in order to gain access to one of the Turnitin VLE sites, you must attend a Turnitin workshop. There are three workshop options which have the same content and provide students with the same access:

Turnitin is one of the tools available for students and teachers to determine the originality of their work. The originality report is a document provided by Turnitin to demonstrate the similarity between students’ original written coursework and Turnitin databases, including books, journals, websites, past submissions, etc. A general similarity score as well as a detailed breakdown are included in the report for instructors to judge the originality of the students’ work.

A Turnitin Similarity Report indicates overlap between the text of the submitted paper and other materials in the Turnitin database. The report indicates the percentage of overlapping material in the paper, as well as specific matching passages. Reports will usually be available within 15-60 minutes of the submission or the due date, depending on the assignment settings.

TurnitinUK is an online service which compares student assignments with online sources including web pages, databases of reference material, and content previously submitted by other users across the UK. TurnitinUK is accessed directly through MyAberdeen.

Turnitin is an online service for students to check the similarities in submitted assignments. It is integrated with the University’s e-Learning platform, Moodle. All submitted assignments are compared for matching to sources in the Turnitin repository and Originality Reports are then generated automatically. An Originality Report summarizes the results of an originality check and highlights matching text. The original text, format, imagery and layout of the submitted assignment remain unchanged in the report. The report displays a Similarity Index, which shows the total percentage of content of the submitted assignment that matches with the sources in the Turnitin repository. The matching sources are presented in a user-friendly format, such as indicating the extent of matching text found by colours.